The First Quest

The First Quest

Monday, September 12, 2011

My Home

R.A. Salvatore writes in a very intriguing way. Within the books of the DemonWars Trilogy, he separates the books into sections and at the beginning of the section he has the main character give, in a way, a soliloquy in which the author has a way of expression morals or beliefs without the book feeling like a philosophy class. In one such passage he discussed the idea of a home and the facade of power generated by wealth. Salvatore expressed that a home was more a feeling rather than a determined place or household. With this train of thought, one would say that a football player is more at home on a football field than possibly his house. I believe that it is a very wise way of looking and that I might describe my home as being any place among friends. In truth that means that were I a nomad, my home would move with me if I wandered with my friends. He also discussed that nobility [exampled used in the book] was prone to be attracted to an object more based on its cost rather than its real value. We can see this all over the place today. There are people who buy Nike's or Under Armor products simply because they cost more therefore they must be better right? I cannot argue that this is always false, but there are many circumstances very this proves to be true.

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